Bill Ziegler & Dave Ramage 
Future Focused Leaders [EPUB ebook] 
Relate, Innovate, and Invigorate for Real Educational Change

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Conversational Leadership: Leadership Driven by Relationships, Listening, and Communication
School Leader’s Story: Listening to Student Voice
The Conversation Is the Relationship
More Meaningful Meetings
School Culture
School Leader’s Story: Building Authentic Relationships
Relate, Innovate, Invigorate Activities
School Leader Simulation (SIM): The Bully Teacher
Chapter 2: Communication Builds Community: Telling Your School Story Together
School Leader’s Story: Telling Your School’s Story
Branding Your School
Digital Media Tools
Relevance
School Leader’s Story: Communicating by Relating
Relate, Innovate, Invigorate Activities
Chapter 3: Connecting to Make a Difference: Building Relationships With the Entire School Community
School Leader’s Story: Connecting Students With Their Community
Connecting for Learning
School, It’s Not Just for Students Anymore
School Leader’s Story: Engaging the Community
Partnerships to Strengthen Learning
School Leader’s Story: Making a Difference for Others
Relate, Innovate, Invigorate Activities
Chapter 4: Shift in How We Do School: The Changing Architecture of Learning and Schooling
School Leader’s Story: Increasing Parent Involvement
Holding Back Innovation: Comfort, Cost, and Courage
A Future Crisis: Pulling Away From the Past to Save the Future
Physical Environment
School Leader’s Story: Empowering Students
Relate, Innovate, Invigorate Activities
Chapter 5: Digital Leadership, Learning, and Technology: Digital School Leaders Making a Difference for Students
School Leader’s Story: Modeling Digital Learning
You Think You Have Problems?
Sw ERI Framework
Future Design Learning Environments
School Leader’s Story: Technology Supports Student Interest
Relate, Innovate, Invigorate Activities
Chapter 6: Nurturing Creativity: Strategies for Leaders to Inspire Creativity in Their Teachers, Students, and Parents
School Leader’s Story: Creating Space for Creativity
The Fourth Revolution
Growing Creativity
School Leader’s Story: Creative Solutions for Authentic Problems
Relate, Innovate, Invigorate Activities
Chapter 7: Inspiring Others to Greatness: Principals Inspiring Teachers, Students, and Parents for Amazing Things
School Leader’s Story: Getting All Voices Heard
Making a Lasting Difference
Culture Changes in Education
Returning to the Call
School Leader’s Story: Community Members Inspiring Students
Relate, Innovate, Invigorate Activities
Chapter 8: Building on Strengths: Leadership That Focuses on Strengths and Celebrates the Success of Others
School Leader’s Story: A House Undivided
The Power of Team
Focus on Strengths
School Leader’s Story: Stronger Together: Collaborating for Success
Relate, Innovate, Invigorate Activities
Chapter 9: Servant Leadership: Serving the Students, Staff, and Community to Ensure They Get What They Need to Learn
School Leader’s Story: Serving the School Community
Kindergarten Lessons
School Leader’s Story: Supporting Students’ Ideas: “Make It Happen”
Relate, Innovate, Invigorate Activities
Chapter 10: Learning Is the Goal: Leadership That Resists Trends and Quick Fixes
School Leader’s Story: Supporting Leadership Throughout the School for Learning
A Lead Learner
Do What Matters
Resist the Quick Fix
Keys to Learning as School Leaders
Celebrate Learning
School Leader’s Story: Changing a School Culture for Learning
Relate, Innovate, Invigorate Activities
Appendix
References
Index

Dave Ramage, Ph.D. has been a public school educator for 29 years. He spent eleven years as a middle school music teacher in grades six through nine at Souderton Area SD in suburban Philadelphia, and then became the Coordinator of Technology Staff Development for the same district. Dave moved to middle school administration as an assistant principal and principal. He currently leads Pottsgrove Middle School. Dave was a 2005 national finalist in the Technology Leaders award sponsored by Technology & Learning magazine. He has presented at conferences including PETE & C, NECC, and PASCD. Dr. Ramage has done adjunct teaching since 1998 for several universities including De Sales University, California University of Pennsylvania, and currently for Drexel University. He received his BS in Music Education from Lebanon Valley College, M.Ed. in Computers in Education from De Sales University, and Ph.D in Educational Leadership and Technology Learning from Drexel University. Dave and his wife Diane have three children who currently practice their lifelong learning in high school, college and graduate school. One of Dave’s favorite quotes is from Dennis Sparks who reminds us, “At school, everyone’s job is to learn.” Dave is excited to lead his staff and grow a learning community that improves instruction, innovates with technology, values critical thinking, and cares for the achievement of every student. Stories of student successes always find their roots in strong relationships and Dr. Ramage is humbled and blessed to be a partner in this vital work.